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Trump’s latest Truth Social post on Iran is revealing not because it exaggerates success, but because it reveals how he appears to define military victory itself.
I know it is Trump - and is probably nonsense - but it does deserve analysis.
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The post frames the destruction of ships, aircraft and infrastructure as proof of total strategic victory.
That reflects a conventional understanding of warfare which does not map neatly onto asymmetric conflict.
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Iran has not spent decades trying to match the United States conventionally.
Its military doctrine evolved around surviving conventional inferiority through disruption, attrition and cost imposition.
#Iran #AsymmetricWarfare 